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BUDGET GAP: With the state budget problems deepening, Gov. Martin O'Malley will have to find new ways to fill the gaps that no one wants to sacrifice for, writes Barry Rascovar for the Gazette.
EARMARK MORATORIUM: Paul West of the Sun reports that a moratorium on federal earmarks is expected to force Maryland colleges and universities, the state and local governments, private companies, charities and nonprofit organizations and other potential recipients to look elsewhere for future funding.
GOP LOSSES, WINS: John Wagner of the Washington Post reports that after becoming Maryland's first Republican governor in a generation, Bob Ehrlich had a simple prescription for how his party could build on his 2002 victory in the heavily Democratic state: Win more big races. Eight years later, the party is starting to think smaller, and seeing victory in those smaller offices.
Julie Bykowicz of the Baltimore Sun also makes note of the trend of state offices staying blue while local offices become red.
Alan Brody of the Gazette writes that while narrow defeats thwarted a good year for Republicans, the close election losses offer a spark of hope for their future. Anne Kramer of WBAL-AM reports the story with the Associated Press.
O'MALLEY OUTSPENDS: Maryland's gubernatorial contest cost the two main candidates about $17 million this year, according to campaign finance reports, with O'Malley outspending Republican challenger Bob Ehrlich by nearly $3 million, writes Julie Bykowicz of the Sun.
FINANCE LAW GAPS: A final round of election reports trickling on to Maryland's campaign finance Web site just before Thanksgiving showed just how little is known about where, when, and how candidates for governor and other statewide offices in Maryland raised and spent money in the crucial final weeks before Election Day, writes the Post's Aaron Davis.
OPEN GOVERNMENT: Legislators and advocates on the right and left are often at odds on policy, but a conference next week will bring divergent groups together on something they can all agree on: the need for greater openness and transparency in government, writes Megan Poinski of MarylandReporter.com.
SNOWDEN SENTENCE: For the second time in eight years, Carl Snowden, current director of the civil rights office in the state attorney general's office, received probation before judgment for drunken driving, which may prove to be an illegal sentence, reports Andrea Siegel for the Sun.
OFFERING BRIBES: One of the Prince George's County liquor store owners indicted as part of a large-scale federal probe into corruption had been offering bribes to county public officials, prosecutors alleged in federal court. Andrea Noble has the story for the Gazette.
PRESSURE ON JOHNSON: Prince George's council member Will Campos has become the fifth county legislator to urge Leslie Johnson to give up her just-won seat on the nine-member panel because of the corruption charges she is facing along with her husband, County Executive Jack Johnson, writes Miranda Spivack of the Post.
ROCKY TRANSITION: Miranda Spivack of the Post reports that top officials on Prince George's exec-elect Rushern Baker's transition team say the outgoing administration of beleaguered Jack Johnson has not been cooperative, even failing to help with customary procedures.
REFORM AT RISK: Baker campaigned with a pledge to change the status quo, but some of his transition team selections — those providing input on department leaders and county issues — put his reformer image at risk, writes the editorial board for the Gazette.
POLICE WRONG-DOING: The three Prince George's police officers arrested as part of the sweeping federal investigation into corruption in the county represent only a fraction of those accused of wrongdoing, according to police officials and internal department records, Matt Zapotosky of the Post reports. Only the three most recent arrests are involved in the federal probe.
FARM AID: Del.-elect Charles Otto's farming background gave him the support, which gave him the leg up to win his election, Greg Latshaw reports for the Salisbury Daily Times. The story also delves into campaign aid received by state Sen.-elect Jim Mathias.
ARUNDEL PENSION: Anne Arundel County Exec John Leopold has set his sights on an overhaul of the county's pension and retiree health care benefits in his second term, the Sun's Nicole Fuller reports.
HO CO CASH: Howard County Democrats, most of whom cruised to easy re-election, will return to office flush with leftover campaign cash, according to the latest state reports, the Sun's Larry Carson writes.
KAMENETZ'S EXPERIENCE: Former Baltimore County Councilman Kevin Kamenetz promises to bring a blend of experience and new ideas to Baltimore County's top job — he'll need both, given the challenges ahead, opines the Sun's editorial board.
The Sun asked community leaders to give advice to the incoming county executive. Read what they have to offer.
EXPENSIVE RACE: The 2010 Baltimore County Executive's race is likely to measure up as one of the most expensive in county history, and its winner, Kamenetz, arguably raised and spent more on his victory than other previous contenders, writes Bryan Sears for Patch.com.
Sears also reports that Kamenetz raised and spent more than his Republican opponent by a 5-to-1 ratio in the 2010 election.
HISTORIC WOMEN: Vicki Almond and Cathy Bevins' swearing-in to the Baltimore County Council on Dec. 6 will mark the first time that two women serve simultaneously, writes Raven Hill for the Baltimore Sun.
NO WOMEN: In an op-ed piece for the Frederick News-Post, Elizabeth Cupino writes about the lack of women on the Frederick County Commission and what that might mean.
CHEAPER RACE: While Baltimore County's county executive race may be one for the books, Anne Arundel County's is not. Spending by County Executive John Leopold and Democratic challenger Joanna Conti this election cycle totaled $677,869 with Conti spending two-thirds of that, records show, costing half what the top two candidates spent in 2006, Erin Cox writes for the Annapolis Capital.
FORT MEADE CLEANUP: The environmental cleanup at Fort Meade is finally moving forward, reports Pamela Wood of the Annapolis Capital. Be sure to take a look at the nifty clickable map that gives information on cleanup and/or inspection sites at Fort Meade.
WINE WHINE: Key lawmakers in Annapolis say they are open to modifying the state's alcohol laws so consumers can receive shipments of wine in the mail. That idea pleases those in the burgeoning locavore movement, as it eases access to Maryland wines. Annie Linskey blogs the story for the Sun. Be sure to read reader comments. Some are very insightful.
JOBLESS BENEFITS CUTOFF: Thousands of Marylanders face being cut off from unemployment benefits next month — just in time for the holiday season — as Congress remains undecided on whether to extend the payments in one of the worst job markets in decades. Jamie Hopkins reports for the Sun.
READY FOR SNOW: With memories of last winter's paralyzing blizzards not far from anyone's memory, the State Highway Administration said it'll get a jump on anything Old Man Winter dishes out by pretreating hundreds of miles of interstate highways under threat of snow, writes Brian Shane of the Salisbury Daily Times.
CITY BOTTLE TAX: Some Baltimore business owners say the city's new bottled beverage tax isn't fair and they've renewed efforts to repeal it, reports Gigi Barnett of WJZ. She adds that the tax is expected to raise $6 million.
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LEAP is hiring, Farm Share registration is open, and plenty more reasons to get excited about our local food bounty!
2018 LEAP Farm Share registration now open!
Looking for an easy, convenient way to eat fresh, healthy foods and support local farmers, all season long? Join LEAP's 2018 Farm Share! LEAP aggregates local fruits, vegetables, eggs, and more from farmers within 100 miles of Roanoke. Farm Share members then pick up their curated box of fresh, seasonal food every week, (24 weeks, May through October, with two built-in vacation days), from one of the pick-up locations.
Pick-up locations for 2018 include the West End Farmers Market (Tuesday 3-6) and Carilion Roanoke Memorial Riverwalk parking deck (Wednesday 3:15-6:15). We'll send a weekly email newsletter to remind shareholders about pick-up and to tell you what's in the share that week. Exclusive food preservation classes will also be available to Farm Share members at The LEAP Kitchen.
All shares are filled on "first paid — first served" basis. Reserve your shares early, before our pick up sites are full! We will have a waiting list, as needed. All shares must be paid in full by April 16th, 2018. As an early-bird bonus, pay by March 31 and we'll throw in a $10 gift card to any LEAP Farmers Market!
SNAPshare: All shares are *half price* with your SNAP/EBT Card!
This year, funds raised through Roanoke Valley Gives will support the LEAP Mobile Market and our popular Senior Incentive Program. Your support will help us keep serving Melrose Towers residents with vouchers for fresh, healthy produce and expand our services.
The innovative LEAP Mobile Market brings local produce (grown within 100 miles) to Roanoke neighborhoods where it is hard to buy fresh produce. At our 10 weekly stops in 2017, we sold lots of local produce and served nearly 3,000 individuals in low-income and "food desert" neighborhoods. And for 2018, we'll be expanding to even more stops each week in Southeast and Northwest Roanoke! Like all our markets, the Mobile Market participates in our Healthy Food Incentive Program.
One of our most-loved stops has to be Melrose Towers. We visit this 200+ unit senior housing center each week and serve seniors on fixed incomes, many of whom also have mobility issues and therefore a difficult time getting to the grocery store. Each week, participating low-income seniors get a $5 voucher to help bolster their food budget. They love shopping for greens, fruits, vegetables, and eggs, and we love driving the Mobile Market up to Melrose Towers to a line of seniors ready for fresh food! Check out our website to hear from a few Melrose Towers residents who have benefitted from the LEAP Mobile Market and the Senior Incentive Program!
We greatly appreciate your support, as do all our community members who benefit from our programs! All donations are tax deductible.
We're hiring! Join the LEAP team as Mobile Market Manager!
LEAP is seeking a passionate person committed to the values of food justice to fill the Mobile Market Manager position. The Mobile Market Manager will manage the daily on-site operations of the LEAP Mobile Market, conduct outreach to customers, promote and explain Healthy Food Incentive programs, collaborate with community partners, assist with the LEAP Farm Share, and help manage inventory. The Market Manager will be responsible for maintaining strict market standards and work to foster a vibrant, community-focused environment at each market stop in the diverse neighborhoods of Roanoke. This is an intensive customer service management opportunity, and will require an energetic, motivated individual with strong communication skills and attention to detail.
This is a seasonal, full time position. If you love fresh, local foods and you're passionate about food justice in Roanoke, this position is for you. Check out the posting to learn more, to apply, and to help spread the word. Email resume and cover letter to Maureen by March 16.
Join us at the LEAP Kitchen on Monday, March 26, from 5:30 to 7:00pm, for a special Food Business StartUp class. We'll be talk about some changes to our LEAP Kitchen membership structure, unveil a new series of educational opportunities for aspiring food business entrepreneurs, and share a handful of food business concepts that would fill a perceived gap in our local food system (and that we think would have a good chance of succeeding in Roanoke). The program is free and open to the public – please join us! And stay tuned for more exciting updates from the LEAP Kitchen in the coming weeks!
Mobile Market coming out of hibernation for special event!
Come out to Carilion Roanoke Memorial on Wednesday, March 21, from 3:15 to 6:15 for a special event featuring the LEAP Mobile Market! We'll be parked outside the Riverwalk parking deck with a full spread of fresh, local goodies for you to enjoy! Come pick up some delicious, nutritious, locally-grown fare, and chat us up to learn about all our programs, including the 2018 Farm Share (the hospital parking deck is one of this year's weekly pick-up locations).
Next Grandin Village Winter Market: March 17!
Come stock up on early-season produce, starts for your garden, baked goods, prepared foods, and oh-so-much more on Saturday, 3/17, from 10am to 1pm! And mark your calendars for our regular market season's Opening Day on April 21 (which happens to coincide with Roanoke's Earth Day celebration, also right here in Grandin Village)!
If the mercury has dropped too low on any given Tuesday, look for us inside, but regardless of the temperature, we'll be around back of the Freedom First branch at 1210 Patterson Ave SW every Tuesday, 3-6pm, with plenty of delicious local fare. This time of year it seems there are new fresh, delicious options offered up each week – don't miss out on the best of the early-season bounty!


Fritz Haber has a mixed legacy. The Nobel-Prize-winning Father of Chemical Warfare was responsible for fertilizers that fed billions, as well as poisonous gasses used during World War I. Tune in to learn more about Fritz's complicated life and work.


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This BLOG On VA Loans Facts And Benefits For Veterans Was UPDATED On January 7th, 2019 By Gustan Cho of Gustan Cho Associates at Loan Cabin Inc.
For many military borrowers, VA home loans are the most convenient lending program in the market. This loan program has helped over 22 million military personnel since 1944. However, many borrowers who can qualify for a VA home loan aren't aware of its importance and they don't understand how VA home loans can help them.
In order to help veteran borrowers get familiar with VA home loans, I'll demonstrate some important facts about VA home loan and highlight its benefits.
VA home loans are insured by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Most people don't understand this simple fact and they think that VA originates and grants loans to borrowers. VA doesn't originate loans; it only insures them and provides a guarantee to lenders in case a homeowner defaults on the VA home loan. Due to insurance and guarantee provided by the VA, mortgage lenders offer 100 percent financing to veteran borrowers with no private mortgage insurance.
Unlike conventional mortgages and FHA loans, VA loans don't have any minimum credit score requirements. This means that veteran borrowers can qualify for a VA home loan even with a poor credit score. Furthermore, VA doesn't require borrowers to have a specific debt-to-income ratio. Many veteran borrowers, who aren't able to qualify for conventional loans and FHA loans because of stringent debt-to-income ratio, may be able to qualify for a VA loan.
Veteran borrowers with outstanding charged off and collections accounts can also qualify for a VA home loan without paying them off. As you can see the requirements of VA loans are convenient. This is the reason why VA loans are considered one of the best mortgage programs in the United States.
Home buyers who wish to apply for a VA home loan should know about its qualification requirements. Members of National Guard and reservist, active military and retired military personnel are eligible for a VA loan if they meet the minimum service requirements. All veteran borrowers who want to get a VA loan must get a Certificate of Eligibility (COE) to verify to the lender that they meet the eligibility requirements on the VA home loan.
Spouses of military veterans, who died while on duty or because of a disability that resulted from military duty, may also qualify for a VA home loan. Military members can qualify for a VA loan after they have completed active duty for six months. National Guard and reservist members must wait for a period of six years before they become eligible for a VA home loan. However, if members of National Guard and reservist are transferred to or assigned to active full time duty, they become eligible after serving for 181 days. National Guard or reservists members who have served activity duty for 90 days continuously during wartime on foreign soil are also eligible for a VA home loan.
A lender won't approve a VA loan if the veteran borrowers aren't able to acquire a Certificate of Eligibility (COE) from the VA. If a veteran borrower is unable to get a COE from the VA, it means that they don't meet the minimum service requirements on the VA loan and therefore, can't qualify for the loan. Those borrowers who can't qualify for a VA loan should consider the other viable loan option with lax requirements like the FHA home loan.
VA loan program is a gift from the United States Department of Veteran Affairs to the fine military personnel who willingly serve in the Armed Services and fight for their country. Private mortgage lenders love to originate and fund VA home loans because they are partially guaranteed by the VA in case the borrowers defaults on the loan. Because of this guarantee, VA home loans come with many benefits for the borrowers.
For instance, on conventional mortgage, borrowers must make a down payment uo to 20 percent to qualify for the loan. However, VA loan doesn't require veteran borrowers to make any down payment. They can qualify for a VA home loan with a zero down payment.
Interest rates on VA home loans are also lower than conventional mortgages. Since VA home loans are insured by the VA, lender can offer lower interest rates to veteran borrowers. The military personnel who are eligible for a VA home loan can greatly benefit from the low interest rates on these loans. The VA doesn't set the interest rates on the VA loan; rather the lender who is issuing the loan decides the interest rate. The interest rates on VA home loans may vary depending on the credit score of the borrower, loan-to-value ratio, debt-to-income ratio, down payment and other factors. A borrower who can put a down payment of at least 10 percent will get a lower interest rate than those borrowers who can't make a down payment. Therefore, veteran borrowers who want to get a low interest rate on VA loan should make a down payment of at least 10 percent.
Another benefit of VA home loans is that they don't require private mortgage insurance (PMI) unlike conventional mortgage where borrowers who finance more than 80 percent of their home's value must pay for PMI. Furthermore, there are no closing costs on VA home loans.
Veteran borrowers often have low credit score which makes it hard for them to qualify for conventional mortgage. Borrowers with a poor credit score can get a VA home loan because there are no minimum credit requirements for this loan. There is also no requirement for debt-to-income ratio on VA home loans.
VA home loans, however, do have some requirements for a housing event like a short sale or foreclosure. The minimum waiting period for a VA home loan after a short sale or foreclosure is 2 years. This waiting period is less than that of other loans. After a housing event, a borrower must wait for 3 years to qualify for FHA home loans and USDA loans and they'll become eligible for a conventional loan after four to seven years.
Another good thing about VA home loans that can help veteran borrowers is that borrowers aren't required to pay their outstanding charged off and collections accounts to qualify for the loan.
Borrowers aren't required to pay anything in closing costs and down payment with VA home loans. However, does that mean that there aren't any types of costs associated with a VA home loan? No, that's not the case. Closing costs do apply on purchase and refinance mortgage transactions. But, these closing costs should not be a major concern for borrowers as lender credit or seller concessions can cover them.
Buyers do, however, need some money to provide as advance when they are buying a home. Sellers require a check of earnest money that can range anywhere between $500 and $1000. Earnest money applies towards closing costs and down payment. Since borrowers aren't required to make any down payment and lender credit or sellers concessions generally cover closing costs, earnest money is refunded to the home buyer at the time of closing.
Most companies require the borrower to pay for the cost of home appraisal upfront before ordering appraisal and this cost is normally under $500. Another cost that must be paid upfront by veteran buyers is of home inspections.
Appraisal is required by mortgage lenders to ensure there is sufficient collateral for a loan. Once purchase agreement has been made (signed by both the seller and the buyer) the lender will sent an appraiser. The appraiser will provide their opinion on home's value and the borrower will be required to pay the fee of appraisal. Borrowers aren't involved in the selection of the appraiser to ensure that the process stays impartial.
For a VA home loan, the appraisal will be completed by an appraiser approved by the VA to determine the value of the home and ensure it's safe and sanitary for the borrower and their family. The appraisal will be reviewed by the lender once it's complete to ensure that it meets the underwriting standards of the VA. An appraisal copy will be provided to the borrower.
An appraisal isn't inspection of the home. A qualified home inspector should be hired by buyers for a thorough inspection of the home to check defects and maintenance issues.
VA although doesn't require mortgage insurance, but there is a VA Funding Fee that must be paid once and this fee may be rolled into the total loan balance. The funding fee varies depending on the type of service and veteran and the down payment. Borrowers who are using the VA home loan to buy a home for the first time may be required to pay VA Funding Fee of 2.15 percent of the total value of the loan. However, veterans who able to put a down payment of over 10 percent may only have to pay a 1.25 percent funding fee. National Guard members and reservist members are required to pay 0.25 more than service members in the funding fee. Veterans who are using the VA home loan second time may have to pay a 3.3 percent funding fee. The upfront funding fee on VA loan is waived for disabled veterans whose disability is service related. The VA Funding Fee can be rolled into the loan so the Veteran does not have to pay for it in cash at closing.
The maximum amount that veteran homebuyers can borrower via VA home loan is $453,100 for 2018. However, in some high-cost areas of the United States, the limit on the VA loan is $679,650.
An important VA loan fact that veteran borrowers should know is that requirements of all lenders for this type of loan aren't same. It's true that there is no minimum credit score requirement and no down payment on VA home loans, but some lenders don't issue loans to borrowers with poor credit score or demand a down payment from borrowers. They set additional requirements over those of VA.
The additional requirements of mortgage over those established by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) are known as lender overlays. Lender overlays make it hard for veteran borrowers to qualify for a VA home loan. VA lenders are free to add their own specific guidelines on top of what is required by the VA. The reason lenders establish overlays is because they want to reduce the risk on the mortgage. Although VA loans are guaranteed by the VA, but lenders will still suffer a partial loss if the borrower defaults on the loan.
Veteran borrowers with higher debt-to-income ratios or lower credit score are more prone to housing events like a foreclosure. Therefore, lenders establish overlays for mortgage requirements like debt-to-income ratio, loan-to-value ratio and credit score to manage risk. Some lenders don't qualify a borrower if their credit score is below 620 or their debt-to-income ratio is more than 43 percent. Veterans can struggle obtaining a home loan when they have bankruptcy issues or late payments. Most of them will not have issues with obtaining a VA loan after bankruptcy.
For veteran borrowers, it can be hard to qualify for a VA loan with lenders who have set their own specific requirements. Therefore, they should find lenders who strictly adhere to the guidelines established by the VA. Just because one lender turns a veteran borrower down for a VA loan doesn't mean that others will too. Some lenders follow the guidelines of VA and don't have any overlays. Veteran borrowers with a dented credit and higher debt-to-income can qualify for a VA loan from such lenders.
If you have been denied a home loan or have any questions about real estate or mortgage please contact the author Gustan Cho at The Gustan Cho Team at Loan Cabin Inc. at 262-716-8151 or text us for faster response. Or email us at gcho@loancabin.com. Gustan Cho Associates at Loan Cabin Inc. works when you work, so feel free to contact him any time.


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There's always something to do in West Covina, CA. The city's motto encourages residents to live, work, and play with equal zest thanks to a full line-up of affordable seasonal events. Drive through the sprawling orange and walnut groves to truly enjoy this gem of the San Gabriel Valley. Southern California is best known for its picture-perfect weather and landscapes, and West Covina is the optimal mix of the region's best assets: It's close enough to Los Angeles and Long Beach for a doable commute, it backs up to the gorgeous San Gabriel Mountains, and its economy is currently thriving along with improvements in transportation and commerce.
This is a small and upcoming market located in downtown West Covina. Products that are currently at the market are as follows; fresh fruits and vegetables of all kinds.
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Join us on Saturday, November 17, 2018 from 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Please join us as we honor those whom have answered the call to protect our country and make sure that America is free.
The community is committed to fitness, art, and family, and that's apparent in government efforts like the West Covina Sportsplex Project, which led to the completion of the Big League Dreams Sports Park. Three-time Super Bowl champion Troy Aikman is from West Covina, where this new athletic complex promises to continue his legacy by training future champions in soccer, baseball, and ice hockey. In 2015 the city will even host athletes for the Special Olympics World Games. As a host town, West Covina will extend its hospitality to thousands of Special Olympics competitors ahead of the main games in Los Angeles.
Weekly seasonal events during the summer months include Tuesday night movies under the stars, a city concert series on Thursdays, and a farmer's market that takes place every Saturday morning. In between these events, everything from golf tournaments to dog shows keep residents entertained while the kids are out of school. Meanwhile, the winter holidays bring memorable events to nearby Pasadena, West Covina's neighbor to the west. The town's Holiday Look In Tour lures visitors from West Covina and the surrounding areas for an unforgettable and festive tour of several historic Gothic and Colonial homes.
West Covina rallies around the local environment, hosting Clean-Up Saturdays for five straight weeks in the spring. Energy efficiency is important here, especially now that almost half a million vehicles pass through every single day. According to the city's Community Development Commission, traffic has increased thanks to West Covina's incredibly convenient position along the interchange of the 605 and 10 freeways, as well as I-210, SH-60, SH-57, and SR-71. This also makes it a perfect fit for families who want to take advantage of their town's ideal geography, smack between some of the country's most scenic mountains and beaches.
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FIVE QUESTIONS WITH...Sabaah Folayan
"A small group of dedicated people can change the world"
An interview with Sabaah Folayan, director of Whose Streets?
An urgent and enthralling chronicle of Ferguson, Missouri after the murder of Michael Brown, Jr., Whose Streets? follows the passion and commitment of the residents who took to the city's streets in the wake of the tragedy. With extraordinary access and startling footage of the escalating clashes between protestors and police, Sabaah Folayan and co-director and St. Louis resident Damon Davis paint an extraordinarily intimate and honest portrait of injustice and the individuals who had the resolve to fight back. DOC10's Anthony Kaufman spoke with Folayan about making her transition to filmmaking, the soundtrack of protest chants, and her hopes for the future.
One of the most captivating aspects of Whose Streets? is its intimacy—its feeling of not so much observing these people, but being among them. How did you achieve that? Did you think of yourself as a filmmaker? An activist? Both?
I always thought of myself as a storyteller. That's what brought me out there in the first place, and that's what I wanted to contribute. I wanted to participate in the real conversations about what was really at play. I didn't know it was a film. Before, writing was my way of expressing myself. I was active in social media and I was getting lots of feedback, but something about it felt unsatisfying and I felt like I was contributing to all this noise and I didn't feel like I was making a real impact. So I went to St. Louis to try to gather information and get a different perspective, and I felt like I had a responsibility to stand with the people, who were really arguing for transparency and accountability, and the filmmaking organically grew from that.
The chants in the film are so stirring. I can still hear echoing in my head, "It is our duty to fight for our freedom; it is our duty to win." As filmmakers, were you conscious of these cries being a part of the overall sound design of the film?
Yes, definitely. We had cut the film without any music, and we would do our feedback screenings and people felt like it didn't need to have any music, because it had its own rhythms: the chants are the heartbeat of the movement and a rallying cry. The chants were also one of the first things that we identified as a glue or backdrop of the story. And the ending chant in the film actually took place five months before we ended production, but as soon as we saw that chant, we knew it was going to be the end of the film.
I know you had so much footage to sift through, some 300 hours. What was your process in terms of finding the story, the arc, and shaping it into a tense feature-length movie?
I really have to give a lot of credit to our editor, Christopher McNabb. He's been with us from the beginning. He'd pull out selects while we were shooting, and having him craft the story from early on, it gave us the shared sense of what it could be. The first assembly edit had followed seven different people and each one had a two-hour assembly, so it was a lot. But Chris was diligent and vigilant, finding the moments that were going to bring these folks to life. Towards the last few months of the process, I think it's where it got really fun, because we had boiled the film down to this 2-hour thing and it definitely had the voice of what we wanted. Then Carol Dysinger came in as a consultant. She gave us a structure and pointed us in the right direction and encouraged us to stick to our vision and our voice, and keep the chapter motifs. We really tried to stay rooted to the energy and spirit of the people of St. Louis and show them respect. At the end of the day, there's been very few people who have put their bodies on the line for our constitutional rights. And it prepared for us what we are seeing today. I think we owe some credit to the people of St. Louis for sustaining this movement.
Speaking of the St. Louis residents, Brittany is such a great character, both sympathetic and fierce at the same time. When did she become such an integral part of the film?
We knew from the beginning that she was going to be very important, firstly because she was so open and trustworthy, and also, she has this magnetic energy that reaches through the screen and people feel it. A lot of it also has to do with Brittany's daughter, Kenna, and intergenerational thing that emerged. It was a big storytelling challenge not to only make it about her and introduce her a little later in the film, so we could make it about the movement. Because we didn't want to create a typical hero story; we didn't want to create a false sense of resolution, which we have not yet found. We wanted the characters to emerge out of the movement.
Whose Streets? feels more important than ever right now, as police departments are likely to be receiving less oversight and accountability. Do you feel any hope right now for the communities in the film and others like them? What can people do?
I have a deep hope and a deep sense of optimism. It's really sad and scary what's happening in our country right now. It's a clear challenge for the American people to uphold our responsibilities as citizens and guide out government from going astray. We're seeing some very frightening leadership and troubling policies, but there are the reemergence of social movements and the reawakening of people. I don't know what's going to happen in the next four years, but I know that in the long run this raising consciousness has to happen and it's going to be better for our country. I do really have a deep belief in people and their resilience and resistance. This is nothing new. The people in St. Louis weren't surprised by the results of the election. But I really believe in the quote: "A small group of dedicated people can change the world."
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Q: Calculator does not work correctly - problem with decimal point I am in the early stages of building a calculator. When I press "1" or "2", it works perfectly fine (replaces the the 0 with a number); however, when I try to do like "0.01", it won't display it correctly. I was assuming that the first two if statements would fix the issue.
let display = document.querySelector('.display');

let numberButtons = document.querySelectorAll('.number').forEach(function(numberButtons) {
  numberButtons.addEventListener('click', showNumber)
  function showNumber() {
    if (display.textContent == 0){
        display.innerHTML = " "
    }

    if (!(numberButtons.innerHTML.includes('.') && display.innerHTML.includes('.'))){//this basically says that if it has a "." dont add "."
       display.innerHTML += numberButtons.innerHTML
    }
}
});

0

  <button class='number' id='one'>1</button>
  <button class='number' id="two">2</button>
  <button class='number' id='zero'>0</button>
  <button class='number' id='decimal-point'>.</button>

A: This line:
if (display.textContent == 0) {

Will be true if the textContent is any of the following: '0.', '0', '', '.0', '0.0', '-0', '+0', and so on. This is because JavaScript first coerces the string value to a number.
What you probably want to check instead is strict equality to a string value: display.textContent === '0'. You could also check against a list, using something like ['0', ''].includes(display.textContent), or against a regular expression for pattern matching: /^0?$/.test(display.textContent).
See Equality comparisons and sameness
 for more details about how equality works in JavaScript.

A: You are trying to check a bunch of things together which is causing you issues. Using == is also causing issues because it can match multiple things.
Personally your logic should be broken out to handle the decimal point separate from the numbers. Using a switch statement can help clean it up.

let display = document.querySelector('.display');

function showNumber() {
  let entry = this.value;
  let currentValue = display.textContent;
  if (currentValue === '0') currentValue = '';
  switch (entry) {
    case ".":
      if (currentValue.includes(".")) { // if there, do not add another
        return;
      } else if (currentValue.length === 0) { // if new, add leading zero
        currentValue = "0.";
      } else { // just add it to the end
        currentValue += ".";
      }
      break;
    default:
      currentValue += entry;
  }
  display.textContent = currentValue;
}

document.querySelectorAll('.number').forEach(function(numberButtons) {
  numberButtons.addEventListener('click', showNumber)
});

0

  <button class='number' id='one' value="1">1</button>
  <button class='number' id="two" value="2">2</button>
  <button class='number' id='zero' value="0">0</button>
  <button class='number' id='decimal-point' value=".">.</button>

A: If you're looking to make minimal adjustments here, then I've got only three changes for you.

*

*Replace your mixed usage of innerHTML and innerContent with only one or the other.

*Check against the string '0' rather than the number

*Add a condition checking for the decimal point to your first if

let display = document.querySelector('.display');

let numberButtons = document.querySelectorAll('.number').forEach(function(numberButtons) {
  numberButtons.addEventListener('click', showNumber);

  function showNumber() {
    if (display.innerHTML === '0' && !numberButtons.innerHTML.includes('.')) {
      display.innerHTML = "";
    }

    if (!(numberButtons.innerHTML.includes('.') && display.innerHTML.includes('.'))) { //this basically says that if it has a "." dont add "."
      display.innerHTML += numberButtons.innerHTML;
    }
  }
});

0

  <button class='number' id='one'>1</button>
  <button class='number' id="two">2</button>
  <button class='number' id='zero'>0</button>
  <button class='number' id='decimal-point'>.</button>

I would advise you to do a little cleanup concerning quotes usage, and you may find there are better approaches to making a calculator than concatenating strings in your HTML too.
Best of luck!

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As a 16-year-old living with her family in Kampala, Uganda, Rebekah Adams'15 saw firsthand how ethnic affiliations can be manipulated to maintain and stoke social divisions.
The family lived near the Kasubi Tombs, the burial ground of the four kings of Buganda and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was engulfed in flames one night in a still unexplained fire.
By morning, fingers started to point in blame. The Baganda, a Bantu ethnic group native to the region, regarded the central government and other ethnic groups with suspicion. When the president visited the aftermath of the fire, riots erupted.
While at Bryn Mawr, Rebekah won the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania to study intermediate Swahili and enrolled in several African Studies courses.
The courses also gave her a better understanding of the region she'd called home for so many years.
A sociology major, Rebekah declared an Africana Studies minor (eventually taking more courses in that field than in her major); spent a semester in South Africa at the University of Cape Town; and earned a fellowship, fully funded by the Teresita Sparre Currie '43 Memorial Scholarship, to Dalun, Ghana, where she engaged in community development work at a local radio station and computer center.
After her Boren year, Rebekah plans to assist a professor at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) with a research project on food security in sub-Saharan Africa as a Commonwealth Africa Scholar.


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Brazilian Carnival gives students taste of Latin American traditions
By: Edyta Wolk
EDYTA WOLK
Photo by: C.E. Adams
Saturday night in the J.C. Williams Center, almost 100 students and visitors gathered for Latinos for Christ's Brazilian Carnival.
Starting at 9 p.m., attendees helped themselves to a variety of Brazilian foods and then danced to Latin American music. The space was filled with students as well as guests and families coming to the party after that night's Festival of Praise.
"Brazilian Carnival is a tradition," said Jaqueline Gonzalez, senior and president of Latinos for Christ. She said that "it's a celebration of the start of Lent," although it ended up being organized a couple of weeks into Lent this year.
Gonzalez said that a major part of the carnival is eating meat, as Catholics must abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent. "We have all types of meat just to celebrate the beginning of Lent," Gonzalez said. Sides and desserts were provided as well.
"The food was delicious," said freshman Elizabeth Castro. "It brought me back to home – my mom's cooking."
Other Latin American traditions were also incorporated into the dancing. The attendees were taught a traditional Mexican line dance called the Payaso del Rodeo, and everyone was able to participate in a large limbo competition.
A photo booth providing Brazilian masks and headpieces covered in beads and feathers was set up as well.
The event lasted just over two hours and had students leaving very satisfied. Many were dancing energetically to their favorite popular Latin American songs and learning new choreography.
"It was a great atmosphere," said freshman Bianca Klapperich. "The music was very pumped-up and very exciting."
"The party … was amazing," said Castro. "The songs were great, and anyone who missed it missed out, sadly. It was the best party ever, hands down."
Freshman Raquel Moreno said, "I loved that it brought a bit of Latin American culture to the students at Franciscan."
Latinos for Christ has put on multiple successful dances for the student body before, and Gonzalez was glad with the work the group put in to the night's Brazilian festivities.
"Everything turned out great," she said.
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Sometimes sleep apnea is accompanied by snoring, but not necessarily. Sleep apnea is most easily known by abnormal pauses in breathing during sleep. This can happen because of a physical blockage of airflow, or a lack of respiratory effort. The most common apnea is when there is a physical blockage of airflow present—this is known as Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA).
It is rare that individuals with this disorder notice a difficulty in their breathing. An individual's partner or someone who sleeps in the same room will often notice symptoms first. People with OSA feel fatigue during the day, and don't feel refreshed upon waking up in the morning. It is also common for patients with OSA to fall asleep watching television, take naps during the day, and it may even affect their work performance.
To establish where you stand on the snoring vs. sleep apnea scale, it is important to participate in a sleep study. A sleep study works to monitor your body functions including brain activity, eye movements, heart rhythm, and oxygen intake. It can take place at a sleep center, or you can take a home testing device and monitor your sleep in the comfort of your bed.
Only a licensed professional medical provider can give you an accurate diagnosis and administer treatment of sleep apnea. That treatment doesn't have to involve obstructive CPAP machines. Treatment with a dental appliance will reduce and often eliminate snoring for that individual by improving airflow during sleep.


When Shockheaded Peter was turned into a stage play, I couldn't stay away. I saw it at least twice, and could watch it over and over – gruesome, beautiful jaw-dropping humour, with the ghorish music of the falsetto & accordion misanthropes The Tiger Lilies tacked onto the play's living flesh. Anyone fancy buying this for me?
i don't know about that one dan; i seems like hoffsploitation to me. i was looking at it in the bookshop and thought it looked a bit naff. i don't really like that style if art. you should just get the original. or i should just get you the original, which i saw for sale in a market in vienna for too much money. the tiger lillies version is definitive for me though.


Her political/civic background: I have worked as an Executive in Residency with a charity based organization in Garfield Park called Breakthrough Urban Ministries. Soon after, in 2016, I ran for and won a seat to become a state representative. As a legislator, I earned a reputation as someone who reaches across the aisle to get things done for working families. As a state representative, I sponsored the improved Illinois education funding formula that directed over $221 million in additional funding to Chicago Public Schools. I was also the chief sponsor of bipartisan legislation that protected funding for child care assistance, a service that allows many working parents to stay in the workforce.
Her education: I am a product of Chicago Public Schools, I was the first person in my family to attend college and graduated with a finance degree from Eastern Illinois University. I then moved back home to the West Side and obtained my M.B.A. in Finance from Roosevelt University.
Are the city's funds invested in a sufficiently safe manner, while getting the best returns? How would you improve the city's investment practices?
Melissa Conyears-Ervin: Treasurer Summers has responsibly operated the office of City Treasurer using some innovative practices, such as the Catalyst fund, to try to stretch taxpayer dollars further to prioritize investments in our community. While there is much more that can be done, we have to take a financially responsible approach to maintaining liquidity and preservation of capital when it comes to City of Chicago funds. The 2008 recession demonstrated to us that even AAA rated securities can have flaws and our obligations to workers, contractors, and organizations in Chicago are many. My experience in Springfield has taught me that asking people to accept "IOU's" in lieu of payments is destructive to vulnerable communities and I will not allow such a thing to happen in Chicago. What we can do is choose who manages our money and which banks hold our money and ensure that they are committed to investing properly in our communities. I am also willing to explore progressive revenue streams to fund programs that address underbanked populations, investments in communities of needs, and long-term planning for our future.
I admire Treasurer Summers efforts to employ ESG investment practices, particularly focusing on worker-friendly businesses. However, I believe the Chicago Treasurer's biggest challenge is to increase investment revenues to defray the guaranteed annual budget increases through 2046 to pay for the pension deals negotiated in 2016.
The city treasurer is an ex officio member on the boards of all the city pension funds. How would you view your responsibility in ensuring the boards are following the most efficient investment policies?
Melissa Conyears-Ervin: While managing our pension funds, I plan to establish guidelines of ethical behavior, transparency, competition, familiarity, commitment, and prudence.
I will encourage transparent and open processes with competitive bidding when it comes to selecting fund managers. I will ask questions about strategy that, I hope, will reveal any biases, ethical conflicts, or lack of details when choosing investments. I will attend meetings and report back to the public or any appropriate elected officials on happenings and bring attention to matters that give me concern. Finally, I will seek input from not only those who are familiar with the process of investing such large sums of money, but from ordinary people who can provide wisdom and insight from their community's perspective on what our government should be doing to safeguard working people's retirement.
What is the appropriate working relationship between the treasurer's office and the mayor's office, and between the treasurer's office and the City Council?
Melissa Conyears-Ervin: I believe the Treasurer's responsibility is first and foremost to safeguard public tax dollars. Outside of the official duties of the office, I believe that requires a productive relationship with both the Mayor and the City Council, but it also demands that the Treasurer speak out when politicians are acting in such a way that is not in the best interest of taxpayers. When it comes to matters of fiscal responsibility, investing in future growth, and wasteful spending, I will do what's right for Chicago residents, not the Mayor or the members of the City Council.
Would you accept or have you accepted campaign donations from financial firms that do business with the city?
Melissa Conyears-Ervin: I will follow all applicable campaign finance regulations governing any entity that does business with the city.
What are your thoughts on a proposal to create a municipal-owned public bank?
Melissa Conyears-Ervin: I am not happy with the way financial institutions have treated citizens in Chicago and am as alarmed as any public figure that huge swaths of my community have the least access to basic banking tools or credit. I will work closely with our State Treasurer to determine if it is in the best interest of Chicagoans to have a municipal deposit institution or a State one to compete with the private sector. I envision that this institution would offer financial products and services such as basic accounts, check cashing, direct deposit, online banking, loans for business, automobiles, education or homes, and financial literacy services. This would also be a powerful tool to regulate the private sector by having to compete with a public institution.
Should the city's investment portfolio be carbon-neutral by 2020? Please explain.
Melissa Conyears-Ervin: My first goal is to make sure the city's investment portfolio is safe and secure, so I would happily sign onto that goal assuming that securities transferred out of the portfolio were not done in a hasty fashion and that securities replacing them earn an equally appropriate rate of return. With each year, the number of blue-chip companies seeking to be carbon-neutral increases, such as Apple, 3M and Dow Chemical. It is a reasonable challenge to achieve a carbon-neutral portfolio, and I plan to make it a top priority for my investment policy.
Chicago was the first city to join the United Nation's Principles for Responsible Investment. Will you maintain that? Please explain.
Melissa Conyears-Ervin: Yes. I believe we can achieve principal preservation, maintain adequate return, and manage our risk while broadening our views of the factors that determine our investments. We should be thinking broadly about how companies structure themselves, whether they have appropriate policies in place promoting sound corporate governance, measure their progress in promoting gender and race diversity on their boards, evaluate their strategy beyond simple short-term measurers, and take a hard look at whether they engage in value-destroying reputational risks. Rate of return is important, but we have the tools and experts to incorporate ESG factors into investment decisions and achieve – in many instances – better rates of return and lower risk to our portfolio.
Outgoing Treasurer Kurt Summers established a $100 million investment fund for neighborhood projects. He also set up a system, as part of making investment decisions, to evaluate companies as good corporate citizens on environmental and social issues. How would you expand, shrink or maintain those programs?
Melissa Conyears-Ervin: I spoke of some of the ESG factors in my answer about the UN Principles for Responsible Investment above. Regarding the Catalyst Fund, it is an excellent idea, but after two years, it has yet to find partner investors, so that the promise of leveraging non-city capital has gone unfulfilled. I believe the concept of leveraging city funds for local development is an excellent idea, but in most other programs, the weight of finding matching funds is the duty of the individual project, not the investor (Catalyst in this case).
Two years is too long to wait. I want to get funds for programs quicker by experimenting with the Catalyst fund, altering it so that qualifications for eligible recipients stay the same, but the method by which they are funded is changed. Once programs are selected, they would be eligible for an investment match, but it would be the program's responsibility to identify eligible investors. I believe by using this kind of market-driven approach, we can address the market failure of community development on the South and West Sides, and foster more private investment in these communities.


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4 crucial items for the Bruins' Don Sweeney this offseason
The heightened pressure to assemble a title-caliber roster unquestionably makes this Don Sweeney's most important offseason of his seven-year tenure.
Don Sweeney has big decisions to make about the direction of the franchise. AP
By Tim Rosenthal
Nostalgia kicked in on Tuesday as the Boston Bruins celebrated the 10th anniversary of their latest Stanley Cup triumph.
Now here we are 3,650-plus days later. The Bruins endured close calls in the Cup Final in 2013 against the high-octane Chicago Blackhawks and again six years later, falling in a bitter Game 7 loss to the St. Louis Blues. They also sustained a handful of second-round exits in that span, including their most recent defeat at the hands of the Islanders, a pair of five-game series losses to the Lightning in 2018 and 2020, and a Game 7 setback to the hated Montreal Canadiens in their 2014 Presidents' Trophy-winning campaign.
Only four players remain from that 2011 Cup squad: Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci, and Tuukka Rask. The latter pair enter this offseason as pending unrestricted free agents. And barring any contract extension, Bergeron could hit the UFA market next season.
The 2011 quartet could all return for another run at hoisting Lord Stanley. Yet, Boston's championship window keeps closing with every disappointing playoff exit. The heightened pressure to assemble a title-caliber roster unquestionably makes this Don Sweeney's most important offseason of his seven-year tenure.
"I think we have to continue to add to the group. I don't think you can expect to bring the band back together if it wasn't able to complete and accomplish the ultimate goal in the last couple of years. And obviously, they've been extremely close on several occasions and having won it several years ago," Sweeney said this week. "They put themselves back into a position to compete for it, and ultimately that's really what they ask. They ask you as an organization to surround them with quality people like themselves, that can elevate their game and grow. To me, that's what it's all about."
The Islanders exposed Boston's defensive depth without Brandon Carlo and Kevan Miller. Now they're sitting at home watching the Isles, Lightning, Canadiens and Vegas Golden Knights vie for the Cup.
So how can the Bruins get over that hump with their veteran core? It'll be tough for sure, with the Seattle Kraken coming into the league for their inaugural campaign in 2021-22. Here's a look at some pivotal offseason items for Sweeney's to-do list.
The looming Expansion Draft decisions
The Bruins will lose one cog to the Kraken on July 21. This gives Sweeney and Boston's front office nearly a month to ponder over their final decisions for their protection list.
Sweeney won't have to protect any pending UFA like Hall, Krejci, Rask, Mike Reilly, or Sean Kuraly. That won't mean the Kraken won't select any of the aforementioned commodities before they hit the open market. But doing so would provide a significant risk for GM Ron Francis.
The Bruins will all but certainly choose the 7-3-1 format protecting seven forwards, three defensemen and one goalie. Marchand, Bergeron and Charlie Coyle all have no-movement clauses, thus providing automatic protection status. David Pastrnak and Craig Smith are locks on the forward list. Ditto for Carlo and Charlie McAvoy on the back end. And Dan Vladar likely gets the goalie spot.
That leaves two forwards and a defenseman left. On the back-end, I find it hard not to protect Matt Grzelcyk even though he had a bit of an up and down season. He's certainly no Torey Krug, but his value on the power play and in 5v5 production trumps that over the rest of the defensive candidates.
So now to the two forwards. The decision here will likely come down to 7th Player Award winner Nick Ritchie, a 2015 first-round pick in Jake DeBrusk, a pair of fourth-line cogs in Chris Wagner and Curtis Lazar, and a raw but speedy talent in Karson Kuhlman.
Even with the looming decisions, the Kraken will have plenty of options to snag out of Boston. They'll likely go a defensive route with Jeremy Lauzon and Connor Clifton as the odds on favorites to head to the Pacific Northwest.
The Bruins will receive a little extra cap space following the Expansion Draft. They'll need it to address their glaring holes on the bottom-six and the left side of the blue-line, all while attempting to re-sign their top UFA's.
Re-signing Krejci and Hall
A rejuvenated Hall arrived in Boston hoping to form chemistry with Krejci and Smith. Together, the trio formed a dynamic second line to complement the potent top scoring line of Marchand, Bergeron, and Pastrnak.
The Islanders kept the second line in check in the final three games of the second-round series. But those disappointing results alone shouldn't keep Sweeney from inking a longer-term deal with Hall and a shorter-term contract with Krejci.
Both Hall and Krejci expressed their interest to remain Bruins during their breakup day interviews. There's some mutual interest on Boston's part to re-sign Hall, Krejci, and Rask (more on him and the Bruins' goaltending situation below). But Krejci will take a few extra weeks to evaluate his future before resuming talks with Sweeney and the front office.
"Even when Taylor got here, he's expressed interest, mutual interest, to have him back. Had an early conversation with his representatives and obviously, we'll have to see where all of the pieces fit together," Sweeney said.
"[Krejci] asked to have a little bit of time in the next few coming days to allow him, on his own, to have conversations with his family, and then we're going to sit back down and have a real honest conversation. I do believe David does want to continue to play. And he's made it pretty clear that if he'd like to continue his career, this is the place he'd continue to play should he chose to stay at the NHL level."
The Bruins will roughly have over $27 million of projected salary cap space to work with after the Expansion Draft. They can take advantage of a friendly cap situation signing Hall and Krejci to hometown discounts. Neither will command as hefty of a cap hit compared to their previous AAV's of $8 million and $7.25 million, respectively.
Sweeney addressed the rotating door on the second line after adding Hall at the deadline. Given the thin internal options for potential second-line replacements, he'd be wise to bring Hall and Krejci back for another go-around.
Adding a veteran goaltender
An outspoken fraction of the anti-Tuukka crowd turned their volume as loud as possible as he attempted to play through a torn labrum. Well, they can take a break from spewing their takes as he'll all but certainly miss the first few months of the 2021-22 campaign following offseason surgery.
Like Krejci and Hall, there's a mutual interest between Rask and the Bruins to ink a new deal in the offseason. Even so, the Bruins will likely look at bringing in a veteran backup.
Jeremy Swayman is primed for a full season of NHL work. Dan Vladar, like Swayman, provided a promising development filling in for Rask and Jaroslav Halak in the regular season. But, beginning a new season with two netminders combining for a mere 15 games of NHL experience is quite a tall ask for a team with championship aspirations.
Regardless, the Bruins will risk putting Vladar on waivers whether they bring in a veteran or not. The free-agent goalie class includes a handful of short-term No. 2 options, including Laurent Brossoit — a backup to 2020 Vezina winner Connor Hellebuyck in Winnipeg — Jonathan Bernier, and Carter Hutton.
Even with Rask's potential return and a backup in place, the Bruins will begin to usher in the Swayman era at some point next season. A stable veteran situation will only help Swayman in the long run.
Find a minutes-eating, left-shot defenseman
The Bruins allowed Zdeno Chara and Torey Krug to walk in the offseason. With significant holes on the left side of the blue-line, Bruce Cassidy's coaching staff hoped to fill the vacancies with some of the younger defensemen complementing the likes of McAvoy, Carlo, and Miller.
Grzelcyk had a bit of a setback but didn't look out of place in a top-four role. Lauzon battled through hiccups and injuries but looked more comfortable in a second or third pairing assignment. Adding Mike Reilly at the deadline provided a puck-moving dynamic, but he didn't move the needle one way or another. Clifton thrived later in the year but looked overmatched in his increased role during the latter half of the Islanders series.
In the six months of the shortened season, the Bruins used a total of 12 defensemen. Eight blue-liners sustained concussions at some juncture of the 2021 campaign. By the end, the Bruins sorely needed another reliable left-shot blue-liner to offset the injuries to Miller and Carlo.
The glaring top-four left-shot defensive need became front and center on Boston's off-season to-do list after Cam Neely's comments in his year-end Zoom call.
"As we saw, you can never have enough D and we never seem to have enough. For some reason or another, we get banged up. I think our D this year had maybe eight concussions, which is something I don't know how to combat," Neely said. "But that position is something that we've been looking for, for a while. And hopefully, we can do something to grab someone that's going to help maybe play 20 minutes a game for us."
If they play their cards right, the Bruins could look at an intriguing free agent option to fill that need. Alec Martinez's stellar season in Vegas could make him a top commodity on the open market. Surely, the Bruins would rather have a similar younger option. But even at 34, Martinez's two-way blue-line skillset would mesh well in a top-four role, at least for the short term.
Martinez and Alex Goligoski highlight the top left-shot defensemen on the open market. If the Bruins want to look at the trade route, they could pursue Vince Dunn from St. Louis or even Oliver Ekman-Larsson from Arizona as long as the Coyotes agree to retain some of his $8.25 million cap hit over the next six seasons.
Though they have some flexibility this offseason, the years of failed drafting and developing — notably the trio of 2015 first-round selections — have put the Bruins in a rather precarious spot this offseason. They don't have many chances left to win another Cup with their prized core.
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No goals from open play in six games – Messi becoming a big problem for Barcelona boss Koeman
by The Haitian Times Oct. 26, 2020 Oct. 26, 2020
Barcelona lost El Clasico, falling 3-1 at home against La Liga leaders Real Madrid on Saturday, leaving the Catalans languishing in 12th place.
It's still early in the season, but worryingly they are winless in three league matches, having drawn 1-1 with Sevilla and fallen 1-0 at Getafe. When you're not picking up points, the big questions get asked quicker and they don't come bigger than Lionel Messi.
The club's captain and talisman is not playing badly, and had one of his better games this season in the Clasico, but has not scored from open play in six, with only two penalties to his name. It is obvious he has not found his place yet in new coach Ronald Koeman's set up.
Playing in the hole against Madrid, Philippe Coutinho shunted to the left and Ansu Fati ahead of him, with Pedri on the right, seemed to suit him better than in any other game so far this season.
"He was back to being the Messi of always, active, participating and always dangerous," wrote Mundo Deportivo . "(Thibaut) Courtois denied his goal, but he had a great game."
Real Madrid's Belgian stopper was alert at his near post when Messi left Ramos for dead with a lightning quick turn in the box, the Argentine's best moment in the game.
Messi's most important contribution, however, was a perfect lofted pass for Jordi Alba, which led to Barcelona's equaliser. The No 10 has played countless of these balls in his career and his precision, combined with the pace of the full-back, means nobody can stop them.
Alba fired in a low cut-back, as he so often does, and Fati made sure he got on the end of it to level after Federico Valverde's opener.
It is noteworthy that Messi isn't getting multiple scoring chances in each game. Despite his other fine and varied contributions, if he can no longer score at the same clip he has done for the past decade, Barcelona have a big problem. Continue reading
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No goals from open play in six games – Messi becoming a big problem for Barcelona boss Koeman

by The Haitian Times, The Haitian Times
October 26, 2020

Barcelona lost El Clasico, falling 3-1 at home against La Liga leaders Real Madrid on Saturday, leaving the Catalans languishing in 12th place.

It's still early in the season, but worryingly they are winless in three league matches, having drawn 1-1 with Sevilla and fallen 1-0 at Getafe. When you're not picking up points, the big questions get asked quicker and they don't come bigger than Lionel Messi.

The club's captain and talisman is not playing badly, and had one of his better games this season in the Clasico, but has not scored from open play in six, with only two penalties to his name. It is obvious he has not found his place yet in new coach Ronald Koeman's set up.

Playing in the hole against Madrid, Philippe Coutinho shunted to the left and Ansu Fati ahead of him, with Pedri on the right, seemed to suit him better than in any other game so far this season.

"He was back to being the Messi of always, active, participating and always dangerous," wrote Mundo Deportivo . "(Thibaut) Courtois denied his goal, but he had a great game."

Real Madrid's Belgian stopper was alert at his near post when Messi left Ramos for dead with a lightning quick turn in the box, the Argentine's best moment in the game.

Messi's most important contribution, however, was a perfect lofted pass for Jordi Alba, which led to Barcelona's equaliser. The No 10 has played countless of these balls in his career and his precision, combined with the pace of the full-back, means nobody can stop them.

Alba fired in a low cut-back, as he so often does, and Fati made sure he got on the end of it to level after Federico Valverde's opener.

It is noteworthy that Messi isn't getting multiple scoring chances in each game. Despite his other fine and varied contributions, if he can no longer score at the same clip he has done for the past decade, Barcelona have a big problem. Continue reading

This article first appeared on The Haitian Times and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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What Was Apartheid in South Africa?
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by Angela Thompsell
Angela Thompsell, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of British and African History at the College at Brockport, State University of New York.
Apartheid is an Afrikaans word that means "separation." It is the name given to the particular racial-social ideology developed in South Africa during the twentieth century.
At its core, apartheid was all about racial segregation. It led to the political and economic discrimination which separated Black (or Bantu), Coloured (mixed race), Indian, and White South Africans.
What Led to Apartheid?
Racial segregation in South Africa began after the Boer War and really came into being in the early 1900s. When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910 under British control, the Europeans in South Africa shaped the political structure of the new nation. Acts of discrimination were implemented from the very beginning.
It was not until the elections of 1948 that the word apartheid became common in South African politics. Through all of this, the white minority put various restrictions on the black majority. Eventually, the segregation affected Coloured and Indian citizens as well.
Over time, apartheid was divided into petty and grand apartheid. Petty apartheid referred to the visible segregation in South Africa while grand apartheid was used to describe the loss of political and land rights of black South Africans.
Pass Laws and The Sharpeville Massacre
Before its end in 1994 with the election of Nelson Mandela, the years of apartheid were filled with many struggles and brutality. A few events hold great significance and are considered turning points in the development and the fall of apartheid.
What came to be known as "pass laws" restricted the movement of Africans and required them to carry a "reference book." This held identification papers as well as permissions to be in certain regions. By the 1950s, the restriction became so great that every black South African was required to carry one.
In 1956, over 20,000 women of all races marched in protest. This was the time of passive protest, but that would soon change.
The Sharpeville Massacre on March 21, 1960, would provide a turning point in the struggle against apartheid. South African police killed 69 black South Africans and injured at least another 180 demonstrators who were protesting the pass laws. This event earned the opprobrium of many world leaders and directly inspired the start of armed resistance throughout South Africa.
Anti-apartheid groups, including the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan African Congress (PAC), had been forming demonstrations. What was meant to be a peaceful protest in Sharpeville quickly turned deadly when police fired into the crowd.
With over 180 black Africans injured and 69 killed, the massacre caught the attention of the world. In addition, this marked the beginning of armed resistance in South Africa.
Anti-Apartheid Leaders
Many people fought against apartheid over the decades and this era produced a number of notable figures. Among them, Nelson Mandela is probably the most recognized. After his imprisonment, he would become the first democratically elected president by every citizen—black and white—of South Africa.
Other notable names include early ANC members such as Chief Albert Luthuli and Walter Sisulu. Luthuli was a leader in the non-violent pass law protests and the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1960. Sisulu was a mixed-race South African who worked alongside Mandela through many key events.
Steve Biko was a leader of the country's Black Consciousness Movement. He was considered a martyr to many in the anti-apartheid fight after his 1977 death in a Pretoria prison cell.
Some leaders also found themselves leaning toward Communism amidst South Africa's struggles. Among them was Chris Hani, who would lead the South African Communist Party and was instrumental in ending apartheid before his assassination in 1993.
During the 1970s, Lithuanian-born Joe Slovo would become a founding member of an armed wing of the ANC. By the 80s, he too would be instrumental in the Communist Party.
Legal Implications
Segregation and racial hatred have been witnessed in many countries throughout the world in various ways. What makes South Africa's apartheid era unique is the systematic way in which the National Party formalized it through the law.
Over the decades, many laws were enacted to define the races and restrict the daily lives and rights of non-white South Africans. For instance, one of the first laws was the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949 which was meant to protect the "purity" of the white race.
Other laws would soon follow. The Population Registration Act No. 30 was among the first to clearly define race. It registered people based on their identity in one of the designated racial groups. That same year, the Group Areas Act No. 41 aimed to separate the races into different residential areas.
The pass laws that had previously only affected black men were extended to all black people in 1952. There were also a number of laws restricting the right to vote and own property.
It was not until the 1986 Identification Act that many of these laws began to be repealed. That year also saw the passage of the Restoration of South African Citizenship Act, which saw the black population finally regain their rights as full citizens.
What Is Grand Apartheid?
When and How Did Apartheid Start in South Africa?
Understanding the Pass Laws of Apartheid-Era in South Africa
What Caused the Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa?
Why These South African National Holidays Are So Meaningful
Apartheid FAQ: Questions About South Africa's Racial Segregation
Major Events Leading to the End of South African Racial Apartheid
What You Should Know About Apartheid
Who Was Nelson Mandela?
Biography of Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu, Anti-Apartheid Activist
South Africa Geography and History
South Africa's Apartheid Segregation: Group Areas Act No. 41 of 1950
The Facts About South African Apartheid
Why Blacks Worldwide Had Complex Relationship With Fidel Castro
What Was the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act?
What Are Civil Rights? Definition and Examples


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package restservice

import (
	"code.google.com/p/go.net/websocket"
	"github.com/straumur/straumur"
	"net/http"
	"time"
)

type WebSocketServer struct {
	events  chan *straumur.Event
	clients map[string]*Client
	addCh   chan *Client
	delCh   chan *Client
	doneCh  chan bool
	errCh   chan error
	Filters chan FilterPair
}

type FilterPair struct {
	Id       string
	Query    straumur.Query
	Attempts int
}

// Create a new Websocket broadcaster
func NewWebSocketServer() *WebSocketServer {

	clients := make(map[string]*Client)
	addCh := make(chan *Client)
	delCh := make(chan *Client)
	doneCh := make(chan bool)
	errCh := make(chan error)
	events := make(chan *straumur.Event)
	filters := make(chan FilterPair)

	return &WebSocketServer{
		events,
		clients,
		addCh,
		delCh,
		doneCh,
		errCh,
		filters,
	}
}

func (s *WebSocketServer) Add(c *Client) {
	s.addCh <- c
}

func (s *WebSocketServer) Del(c *Client) {
	s.delCh <- c
}

func (s *WebSocketServer) Done() {
	s.doneCh <- true
}

func (s *WebSocketServer) Err(err error) {
	s.errCh <- err
}

func (s *WebSocketServer) sendAll(event *straumur.Event) {
	for _, c := range s.clients {
		logger.Infof("%s %+v", c.Id, c.query)
		if c.query.Match(*event) {
			c.Write(event)
		}
	}
}

func (s *WebSocketServer) Broadcast(e *straumur.Event) {
	s.events <- e
}

func (s *WebSocketServer) GetHandler() http.Handler {

	onConnected := func(ws *websocket.Conn) {

		defer func() {
			err := ws.Close()
			if err != nil {
				s.errCh <- err
			}
		}()
		clientId := ws.Request().Header.Get("X-User-Id")
		logger.Infof("Added client:%s", clientId)
		client := NewClient(ws, s, clientId)
		s.Add(client)
		client.Listen()
	}

	return websocket.Handler(onConnected)

}

func (s *WebSocketServer) FindClientById(uuid string) *Client {
	for idx, c := range s.clients {
		if c.Id == uuid {
			return s.clients[idx]
		}
	}
	return nil
}

func (s *WebSocketServer) Run(ec chan error) {

	for {
		select {

		// Add new a client
		case c := <-s.addCh:
			logger.Debugf("Added new client")
			s.clients[c.Id] = c
			logger.Debugf("Now", len(s.clients), "clients connected.")

		// Attempt to pair the filter with the websocket connection,
		// requeue in case the client hasn't been added or isn't using
		// websockets
		case filter := <-s.Filters:
			client := s.FindClientById(filter.Id)
			if client != nil {
				logger.Infof("Client filter matched %s", client.Id)
				client.query = filter.Query
			} else {
				if filter.Attempts < 3 {
					time.AfterFunc(2*time.Second, func() {
						logger.Infof("Requeing %+v", filter)
						filter.Attempts++
						s.Filters <- filter
					})
				} else {
					logger.Infof("Dropping %+v", filter)
				}
			}

		// del a client
		case c := <-s.delCh:
			logger.Debugf("Delete client")
			delete(s.clients, c.Id)

		// consume event feed
		case event := <-s.events:
			logger.Debugf("Send all:", event)
			s.sendAll(event)

		case err := <-s.errCh:
			logger.Errorf("Error:", err.Error())
			ec <- err

		case <-s.doneCh:
			return
		}
	}
}

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Islamist militants in Philippines set deadline to execute foreign captives
2:52 PM | April 16, 2016
Islamist militants in the Philippines on Friday announced a new deadline of April 25 for the execution of three foreign captives and a Filipino, but scaled back their ransom demand in a video posted on social media.
The captives - two Canadian men, a Norwegian man and a Filipino woman - were kidnapped from a beach resort on a southern island last September.
They are believed to be held in the jungle on Jolo island, a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf group, which is known for bombings, beheadings and kidnappings.
In the video, the captives, with machetes held to their necks, asked their families and governments to pay a ransom of 300 million pesos ($6.51 million) each, down from the figure of a billion pesos each that the militants demanded last year.
"This is already an ultimatum," the masked militant leader said. "We will certainly behead one of these four," he added, setting the execution for 3 p.m. on April 25.
There was no explanation why the ransom was reduced or a new deadline set.
A spokesman for the Philippine military declined to comment, saying he had not seen the video.
In Ottawa, a spokeswoman for the Canadian foreign ministry said the government was aware of the video.
"(We) will not comment or release any information which may compromise ongoing efforts or endanger the safety of Canadian citizens," Rachna Mishra said in an emailed statement.
In the nearly two-minute clip posted on YouTube, the foreigners appealed for the militants' demands to be met.
"I am told to tell you that my ransom is 300 million," said one man, who identified himself as Robert Hall.
"My specific appeal is to the Canadian government, who, I know, have the capacity to get us out of here. I'm wondering what they're waiting for."
The other Canadian and the Norwegian also made appeals, but the Filipino woman was not allowed to speak.
The video was the fourth such appeal released by the militants. In their third clip last month, they set an April 8 deadline but no ransom was specified.
Security is precarious in the resource-rich south of the largely Christian Philippines, despite a 2014 peace pact between the government and the largest Muslim rebel group that ended 45 years of conflict.
Abu Sayyaf militants are holding other foreigners, including one from the Netherlands, one from Japan, four Malaysians and 10 Indonesian tugboat crew.
On the nearby island of Basilan, government troops are pursuing another faction of Abu Sayyaf rebels, who killed 18 soldiers and wounded more than 50 in an ambush. The military said 28 Islamist militants , including a Moroccan, were killed.
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Home » International » A vicious circle: The more aggressive Putin is, the more Russians love him
A vicious circle: The more aggressive Putin is, the more Russians love him
Europe According to Vladimir Putin (Image: Yanko Tsvetkov's Atlas of Prejudice, atlasofprejudice.com)
2015/04/30 - 01:10 • International, More
Edited by: A. N.
Russian polls, admittedly not the most reliable source, suggest that the more aggressive Vladimir Putin is, the more Russians love and support him regardless of the immediate impact of his policies on their lives, a vicious circle that history suggests could lead to a disaster especially given Moscow's possession of a large army and nuclear weapons.
Sergey Grabovsky (Image: day.kiev.ua)
In a commentary in Kyiv's "Den'," Sergey Grabovsky points out that Russian polls show that Putin's rating among Russians has dramatically increased since the annexation of Crimea and Moscow's intervention in the Donbas and that Russians feeling about their own situation have also become more positive.
And he cites the words of Valery Fedorov, the head of the VTsIOM polling agency, for an explanation: "The economic crisis is not as deep as many feared it would be; expectations were much worse. In addition, in the last year, the self-evaluation and self-respect of Russians grew."
That trend, the Kremlin-linked pollster says, "is directly connected with Crimea, with the conflict in Ukraine, with the fact that we now are not simply competing with the US but in conflict with that country, and this, in the opinion of the majority of Russians means that we are comparable in greatness."
Such feelings, Fedorov suggests, are "a very important element of the self-assessment" of Russians." Given their improved feelings about themselves on this basis, he adds, Russians have been "anesthetized" against the impact of any economic problems they may face in their day-to-day lives.
Grabovsky argues that this shows that for "the absolute majority of Russians," the three factors that explain their positive feelings about themselves and about Putin are "foreign aggression, conflicts with world leaders, and wars on Ukrainian territory. Everything else for 'the devoted people' is not so important," and their expectations for themselves remain low.
All of this might not matter much, he continues, "if Russia were not an enormous state with nuclear weapons and a large land army."
But it is, and that means that "the despotic, neo-totalitarian power (one of the main characteristics of totalitarianism is the impossibility of the rotation of ruling groups) has at its command tens of millions of 'slaves' who do not recognize the real danger for themselves and are ready to support the acts of 'the national leader' and his people right up to 'the red line.'
That is, Putin has "tens of millions" of supporters "who are intoxicated not only from alcohol but from global conflicts and local wars [and] who are prepared to suffer serious problems in the name not of freedom, humanism, or national flourishing but in order that someone else as a result of Russian actions will live badly."
That in turn has led within Russia to the flourishing of an autocratic state, xenophobia, and a personality cult, Grabovsky says. And as various cases from the history of the last century show, that can lead to disaster. Russia's possession of nuclear weapons compound that problem and mean the disaster ahead could be far worse.
According to the Ukrainian commentator, there is only one way out of this vicious circle: "Russia with the help of the efforts of the international community must be stripped of its weapons of mass destruction. Once and for all, so that the planet will be protected against the rise to the head of this state of the latest 'titan.'
Otherwise, Putin or some future leader will be driven in that direction "not for the defense of freedom or the increase of the well-being of the population" but to gain support for "aggressive attacks on its neighbors" and the use of "a threat of nuclear attacks on all who do not agree" with him.
Tags: international, nuclear blackmail, nuclear threat, Nuclear weapons, Putin, Russia, Russian society
Paul A. Goble
Paul Goble is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia. He has served as director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn, and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia. Earlier he has served in various capacities in the U.S. State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the International Broadcasting Bureau as well as at the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Euromaidan Press republishes the work of Paul Goble with permission from his blog Windows on Eurasia.
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